Graduate Committees
Graduate Liaison
This individual acts as the liaison between graduate students and the Department administration in communicating student needs and concerns. A major responsibility of the Graduate Liaison is to convene student meetings each semester to elicit information about student concerns and issues that they wish to have presented to administration and faculty for review and resolution. In addition, this person helps organize social activities for the students and works closely with the Graduate Program Coordinator to communicate both university-wide and departmental issues of relevance to the graduate students.
Graduate Student Liaison: Susanna Ricco
Faculty Search Committee
Graduate students play a vital role in the evaluation of candidates that visit the department as part of recruiting new faculty. A committee for each search area is formed annually with a student search coordinator and interested students comprising the committee. Responsibilities include maintaining the student faculty search webpage that includes information on each candidate for consideration as well as schedules for facilitating the interaction between candidates and students at informal discussion groups, lunches and receptions. Members of the search committee(s) work closely with the faculty person chairing the search and the appropriate admin staff who coordinate the candidate visits to ensure that all aspects of the candidate's visit/interview is attended by students. At the conclusion of the faculty search process all graduate students complete an evaluation survey on the faculty candidates and a summary of student opinion is presented formally at a faculty meeting addressing candidate selection.
Faculty Search Student Coordinator: Gavin Taylor
GPSC Representative
The Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) acts as a liaison between Arts Sciences administration and the students. Each department is entitled to one representative. GPSC holds biweekly meetings, typically lasting one hour. Two persons may share representing the department, alternating attendance at meetings.
CS Representative: Jie Xu
Graduate Recruitment Committee
Graduate students play a vital role in the recruitment of future graduate students -- from the point of being a prospective applicant through to newly matriculated student. This committee works closely with the Graduate Program Coordinator and Recruitment Chair in identifying prospective applicants, participating in various campus visits by prospectives, promoting the graduate program when attending conferences, and coordinating activities for admits attending a special recruitment weekend in early April.
Graduate Recruitment Coordinator: Eduardo Cuervo
Graduate Student Mentors
Members of this committee assist new graduate students in acclimating to Duke and the CS Department. Mentors communicate with new students through e-mail prior to their arrival and greet and assist them upon arrival. They serve as a constant resource that the new student can come to with concerns or questions, providing a special one-on-one relationship. If interested in serving as a new student mentor please contact the DGS office.
Computing Infrastructure Committee (Rep)
This person represents graduate student issues regarding the computing environment and research needs at meetings of the CS lab staff.
Student Representative: TBD
Space Committee (Rep)
This person represents the graduate student body on the Space Allocation Committee which is charged with the responsibility of identifying the needs of the Department for office space for its various constituencies, space for research labs, and other infrastructure requirements. This representative works closely with the Graduate Program Coordinator who identifies graduate space availability and students eligible for the office selection lottery.
Space Committee Representative: Mac Mason
Social Activities & Recreation Committee
This committee coordinates the social activities for graduate students within the Department. Typically such events are scheduled for Friday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00. Members are encouraged to solicit other students to assist with setup/cleanup for special theme TGIF's such as holiday theme parties, movie nights, and international food tastings.The Department financial office provides guidelines for purchasing refreshments for these events
Organizers: Jeff Martin & Nikhil Gopalkrishnan
ACM Programming Contest
This individual assists the CS education group in securing student offices for contest use, organizes volunteers to assist with preparation of materials, registration on contest day, and manning printers during the contest.
Contest Coordinator: Abrita Chakravarty
Communications Committee (Rep)
This person serves as student representative in discussions regarding various media utilized to promote the Department and the graduate program.
Student Representatives: Abrita Chakravarty, Mac Mason